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Tape-Wrapped Block Unwind

OTPlan — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:53:11 +0000

This activity provides fantastic heavy work input for little hands. Wrapping a block tightly with tape creates high resistance. When your child peels the tape off, they are getting deep proprioceptive feedback. This strong, controlled pulling action strengthens the intrinsic muscles of the hand. These muscles are essential for dexterity, pencil control, and managing buttons and zippers. The child also practices using two hands together (bilateral coordination). One hand stabilizes the block while the working hand focuses purely on precise peeling.

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Resistant Yarn Unravel

OTPlan — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:59:34 +0000

This heavy work activity provides deep pressure input to help regulate the nervous system. The required strong, sustained pull gives proprioceptive feedback to the hands and arms. This strengthens the small hand muscles needed for future tasks like cutting and drawing. Stabilizing the block with one hand while the other pulls promotes strong bilateral hand coordination and proximal stability at the shoulder and elbow.

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Block Tower Tug

OTPlan — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:51:16 +0000

This activity focuses on building strength and stability through playful resistance. By pulling a weighted block tower, your child gets important proprioceptive input. This sensory input helps them understand where their body is in space. Maintaining a tall kneeling position strengthens the core and shoulder muscles. Strong shoulders and a stable core are the foundation for good fine motor skills. Pulling the string hand-over-hand also develops bilateral coordination and grasp strength. These are necessary skills for daily tasks like buttoning and cutting paper.

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The Gravity Trap Challenge

OTPlan — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:48:00 +0000

This fun building challenge strengthens your child's ability to plan complex actions, use both hands together for detailed tasks, and develop the 'just right' amount of muscle force needed for precision.

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Pillow Mountain Delivery Service

OTPlan — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:05:02 +0000

This activity gives your child powerful input (heavy work and pressure) which helps calm and organize their body, improving focus and body awareness. It also requires careful planning and coordination to use both sides of the body together while balancing.

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Guess the Toy

Danielle Noriega — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:06:49 +0000

This activity promotes stereognosis (identifying an object through touch instead of vision), visual perception, and tactile input. This activity bridges the connection in our brains between what we see and what we physically feel. We use these skills for tasks, such as efficiently locating items in our backpacks without looking.

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Jump and Kick

OTPlan — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:45:33 +0000

Promote balance and eye-legs coordination, and motor planning by jumping between pillows/steppingstones and knocking down blocks/water bottles along your route.

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Stereognosis Shape Finder

OTPlan — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:14:17 +0000

This game is working on the development of the child's stereognosis skills as well as promoting visual perception by playing a shape finder game.

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Sensory Salad

OTPlan — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:20:47 +0000

In this activity, the child gets to use his imagination as he works on promoting his fine motor skills and his ability to process tactile input. This is a fun activity to do in a small group for social interaction and promotion of language.

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Touch and Match

OTPlan — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:43:32 +0000

This activity provides the child with tactile input as he digs in the selected media to find matching objects. The goal is to have the child use an appropriate grasp while pulling the object out of the container.

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